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Advice to Pinsent Masons

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Enquiry

From
Pinsent Masons
Date advice given
12 April 2012
Enquiry type
Phone

Mr Lockerbie asked whether IPC Guidence Note 1 still had effect given the abolition of the IPC.

Advice given

IPC Guidance Note 1 was published by the Commission under s.37(4) and s.50 of the Planning Act 2008. The IPC was abolished, and references to the Commission in the 2008 Act including in those two sections was removed, on 1 April 2012 by the Localism Act 2011. Hence, Guidance Note 1 was withdrawn and removed from the National Infrastructure pages of the PINS website on 1 April 2012. There remains a power for the Secretary of State to issue Guidance under those provisions.

The text included in Guidance Note 1 has been reissued as Planning Inspectorate advice, and this can be found in Planning Inspectorate (National Infrastructure) Advice Notes 6, 14 and the soon to be issued advice note 16.